Synopsis:THE CASUALTIES OF DRONGARAs civil war between the Republic and Separatists
rages across the galaxy, nowhere is the fighting more
fierce than on the swamp world of Drongar, where a
beleaguered mobile hospital unit wages a never-ending
war of its own...
A surgeon who covers his despair with wisecracks;
another who faces death and misery head-on, venting his
emotions through beautiful music... A nurse with her
heart in her work and her eye on a doctor... A Jedi
Padawan on a healing mission without her master. These
are the core members of a tiny med unit serving the
jungle world of Drongar, where battle rages over the
control of a priceless native plant and an endless line
of medlifters brings in the wounded and dying, mostly
clone troopers, but also soldiers of all species.
While the healers work desperately to save lives, others
plot secretly to profit from the war, either by dealing
on the black market or by manipulating the events of the
war itself. In the end, though, all will face individual
tests, and only those of compassionate hearts and
staunch spirits can hope to survive to fight another
day.

Chronology:
This story occurs 24 months after the Battle of Geonosis,
approximately 20 years before the Battle of Yavin.

Review
by Jay-A, UK, 2004:
"Battle Surgeons is very much an ensemble piece. Everyman
surgeon Jos Vondar finds himself falling in love with mind-reading
nurse Tolk Le Trene; cue inner conflict, as Jos's family tradition
forbids such interracial frolics. He also discovers that the Clone
Troopers on which he regularly operates can feel emotion, even if
they do all look like Jango Fett.
"Bariss Offee, a mere bit-part Jedi Padawan in Episodes
II and Episode
III, has more profound concerns, including occasional
temptations from the Force's dark side. Sadly, her ongoing clashes
with sadistic combat instructor Phow Ji ultimately seem to vanish
into that fat drawer of plotlines marked 'pointless'
"Drongar itself is described beautifully, from the mutating
spores in its atmosphere down to its flying insects and humidity.
Less impressively, we're often given the same exposition more than
once. Either Reaves and Perry have mistaken their audience for
goldfish, or they're writing alternate chapters and someone should
have taken a broader overview."
Rating: 3 / 5

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